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Free up disk space on Arch Linux by clearing your pacman cache
Generally speaking, I tend to run Linux with a single partition. But, with my work laptop, I [for some unknown reason] had opted to run with a dual partition setup, for root / and home /home. Not the most earth [...]
VPS Showdown - October 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Q4 is upon us! I've been busy moving recently, so I've admittedly not been as on top of the VPS news (or my Twitter account) in the last few weeks. That being said, it looks like Lightsail is not offering [...]
Customer-owned and managed "COAM" modems with Spectrum
Having moved recently, I had to not only needed to move my Internet service (through Spectrum) to the new address, as well as set up a new modem since it seemed like it was time for an upgrade. Seeing as [...]
Best way to pin TypeScript as a dependency
While I'm a pretty big fan of TypeScript, there's some stuff that drives me up a wall. One of those things recently came to light during the release of TypeScript 4.4 on a Friday afternoon. So it was nearing both [...]
[FIXED] Repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease' changed its 'Suite' value from 'stable' to 'oldstable'
Even though I haven't upgraded from Debian 10 "Buster" to Debian 11 "Bullseye", I've already been bitten by a bug. The bug showed up in one of my local Docker containers that is running Debian 10. Upon starting the container [...]
VPS Showdown - September 2021 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
September, the last month of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least) but not the end of comparing a few VPS providers. Didn't see a lot happening this month side from Vultr starting a beta period for their Kubernetes offering [...]
Remove unnecessary files in node_modules
As the meme goes, the object with the largest mass in our universe is the node_modules directory. Generally speaking, storage is cheap, and while an unkept set of dependencies can be quite messy (and often times a security hazard), the [...]
Multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA) not working
Multi-factor authentication is an absolute must to help maintain the highest level of security on your accounts. There's many ways to go about MFA/2FA from using an authenticator app to receiving a text message on your phone. Regardless of the [...]
Debugging an AWS Lambda that stopped working
My wife and seed would agree that talking about AWS Lambdas are in my "big three" of things to not shut up about, along with fishing and professional wrestling. Regardless, I do love them so (both the Lambdas and the [...]
Fixing Nest error e73 - No power to Rc wire detected
It's been heating up in Texas recently, even more so when I had discovered that our Nest unit was giving us grief about the "Rc wire" not being detected. This is an existing unit, not one that I recently installed [...]